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There’s been lots more action around the #TheDigitals hashtag this week, and we’ve welcomed a number of new faces to the top twenty, quite a feat when you remember we now have over 7,000 people battling it out for the chance to be on the judging panel for The Digitals Awards.

Over the past seven days you’ve really upped your game, and we’ve seen some fantastic links to innovative, exciting and just plain useful stuff that’s helping define the digital marketing landscape.

Of course, #TheDigitals leaderboard is all about sharing great content, so here are a few useful links that we saw pop up…

Here’s some of the great content this week’s Superstars have been sharing:

1: Oscars Infographic

This great infographic from this week’s leaders Silverbean, showing how the Twittersphere reacted to this year’s Oscars:

7: Pontifications

Keep the good stuff coming our way via #TheDigitals hashtag to climb the board – Congratulations again to Silverbean! Next week we’ll be announcing our overall winner, who will join our international judging panel and help us shape the future of digital.

This year at SXSW, there seems to be a great focus on the startup, entrepreneurialship and business. Also more and more of the sessions in the various streams seem to be crossing over each other. Interactive isn’t the only place to hear about moves into the digital space and integration across channels so those here for Film and Music are getting a great deal of interactive learnings.

The Econsultancy US team are going strong in Austin covering sessions and conducting interviews of some of of the great speakers converging on Texas. You can follow along on our interactive board “SXSW Live” as we pull in the best Tweets, pictures and articles as the conference goes.

We also pulled together a list of the few things that are going to be great to see (or at least we hope so). If you are down here at SXSW, make sure to look out for our #SXSWRedBus (we even have a real-time map to track it’s progress) and follow SXSWRedBus on Twitter.

Fast food giant Burger King experienced a social media meltdown earlier this week, as the brand’s Twitter feed was hacked, its profile picture and name changed to that of industry rival McDonalds, and a series of unusual tweets were fired out to the brand’s followers.

Things first went amiss around noon EST, and followers were treated to over an hour of links to YouTube videos, pictures of dirty kitchens, tweets about percolate and a few reminders that comms managers can’t afford to take public holidays off…

According to a newly-published study published by Pew, nearly three-quarters of Facebook users polled said they didn’t know that Facebook generates and stores data about their interests and traits, and, when they came to learn this, over half indicated that they were uncomfortable with Facebook’s practice.

Mastercard, the third-largest credit card processor in the US, has announced a new policy that will make it more difficult for some businesses to automatically convert free trials into recurring subscriptions.